Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Contributors vii
5. Preface ix
6. Abbreviations x
7. Introduction 1
8. Looking for Yersinia Pestis: Scientists, Historians and the Black Death 15
9. Pestilence and Poetry: John Lydgate’s Danse Macabre 39
10. Pilgrimage in ‘an Age of Plague’: Seeking Canterbury’s ‘hooly blisful martir’ in 1420 and 1470 57
11. An Urban Environment: Norwich in the Fifteenth Century 79
12. Mid-Level Officials in Fifteenth-Century Norwich 101
13. Leprosy and Public Health in Late Medieval Rouen 123
14. Plague Ordinances and the Management of Infectious Diseases in Northern French Towns, c.1450–c.1560 139
15. The Renaissance Invention of Quarantine 161
16. Coping with Epidemics in Renaissance Italy: Plague and the Great Pox 175
17. The Historian and the Laboratory: The Black Death Disease 195
18. Index 213